Israel Insider: "American foreign policy is in shambles"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"he Secretary of State enjoy a light moment with Mahmoud Abbas as Arafat looks on."

http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/6108.htm

The United States is pressuring Israel to relinquish control over access to Gaza. This includes abandoning the Philadelphi Corridor , allowing a free port in Gaza and overland transit to the West Bank.

How absurd. It is one thing to attempt to do so as part of transforming the Middle East, it is another to do so when the US has failed miserably in this endeavor.

The US has failed to stabilize Iraq where the death toll of civilians, politicians and diplomats is increasing. Furthermore the constitutional process is not going well. The Sunni representatives have resigned. There is lack of agreement on the exclusion of Sharia law, on Iraq not being an Arab country and on the division of resources. But there is agreement on preventing Israelis from becoming citizens.

All this seems to suggest a breakup of Iraq into three countries which is the total opposite of what the US wants. Finally it was hoped that Iraq would be a friend of the West, yet we saw last week that it has gotten into bed militarily and economically with the Iranians.

[RPM]

1. it was in shambles ab initio...

the whole Bush policy since 2001 has been completely ill-founded and executed even worse.

these radicals have tried something new, and they are learning that there is a reason it was always done the way it was always done.

[Blue_Tires]

2. wow....israel on a moral high horse about 'transforming the ME'

it is to laugh....

lest the author forget WHICH nation it was that whored shamelessly for the invasion in the first place

[quaoar]

3. The breakup of Iraq is precisely what is going to happen

And at this point it is the only thing that will prevent a bloody civil war.

[tocqueville]

6. and that's exactly what the Israeli want

they are already training the Kurds militarily


http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0591/9105008.htm

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040628fa_fact

http://www.itnet.org/kurds_islam.html

so why the whining ?

[Jim Sagle]

4. They are just realizing what most of us already knew:

This war wasn't about transforming anything but Cheeeney's checkbook.

[Zorbuddha]

5. Duh

Now if half of America would just wake-up and smell the coffee.

[Lexingtonian]

7. This funny....

An Israeli right wing fruitcake has figured some of it out.

Though not that much- check out this Interesting Idea of his:

What is needed is for the US to mobilize a half a million troops and to impose its will on Syria, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The half measures currently employed have proven insufficient for the task.

Moran.